X-PLANE 11 ILS APPROACH TUTORIAL

hello explainers today we're going to talk about the instrument landing system or ILS as it's commonly known so ILS provides lateral and vertical guidance to your aircraft when you're landing it's pretty simple these systems have been around since the early 1930s very reliable used in most airports around the world though not every Airport not every runway has an ILS approach system they are very very common so ILS is often used when weather is a factor when you're deciding whether or not you're going to be able to make a safe approach to an airport in the United States if a pilot can follow ILS down to within about 200 feet AGL of touching down and they can see the runway then they can legally land but if they can't see the runway that's the decision point where they're going to need to climb back up and try again or maybe head to a different Airport so at the beginning of an ILS approach the ILS signals function as a navigation aid this aid helps to make sure that the aircraft is lined up correctly with the runway from a longer distance out then you could typically see the runway using the naked eye even in good weather and so ILS is a very valuable tool to have in your toolbox when you're flying an X plane it's actually very enjoyable to get on that ILS approach and watch the plane do its thing to get lined up with the runway and come in at the perfect glide slope so to fly an ILS approach you first need to align your aircraft with the runway using that localizer as your guidance this is typically done by either radar vectors from ATC or air traffic control or with a procedure turn so what's a procedure turn you might ask well that means you're selecting an approach in your explained five thirty GPS unit and activating it so that your aircraft will line itself up generally with the runway in this tutorial I've used a programmed approach in my GPS to line up with the runway starting at about twenty miles out from the West Yellowstone Airport I like to start my flight by going to sky vector calm for charts now this is not entirely necessary especially if you're using X planes in map but I do like to have that extra information for just a little extra realism first you're going to look at the ILS localizer information published for that Airport that you wish to land at answer questions like what frequency is the localizer on what altitude do you need to be at and how far out in order to intercept the glide slope and you need to have all of this information programmed into your nav radio before you actually make the approach now if you're using explains built-in map feature it will automatically tune into that frequency if you open the map and choose your approach and as long as you're close to the airport yeah that you're going to land at it will be listed as an option to select an approach but make sure it's an ILS approach not all runways have the equipment for an ILS approach remember so in order to get those navigational charts that we were talking about you're going to navigate to skyvector comm now I am NOT currently signed into my accounts so you can get this information without actually being logged into skyvector but I've got a flight plan that I've filed previously from Ogden Utah to West Yellowstone this is the final leg of that trip and if you look we've got West Yellowstone located on the map here there's a dot right in the center of the runway if we click on that dot it opens up some location information we're going to click on the first information which is the Yellowstone information West Yellowstone Airport and you can see there's all kinds of information about the airport some pictures how much fuel is going to cost you but what we're really interested in today is we're going to school scroll down to the instrument approach procedure charts now I know that I'm going to be doing an ILS approach and so I'm going to be looking for a chart that has ILS in its title I know that that's runway one because I've flown into this Airport before and I know that runway one is the only runway and West Ellison that has this type of approach once you go ahead and click on that it opens up a printable PDF we then you can start to explore for some of that information so if we zoom in a little bit in the upper left hand corner you can see the localizer is set to one ten point seven remember the localizer is a directional radio antenna and so you need that information to program into your nav radio so that your plane can pick up on the signal that that localizer is putting out if we scroll to the bottom we've got some more information here this can be useful number one it tells us what heading we're supposed to be on so it's zero one two that's the heading we need to be on at six point nine nautical miles another piece of information we're going to see on this chart is the altitude we're supposed to be at and so you can see there's a graphical representation of the glide slope that glide slope indicates that six point nine nautical miles out from the runway we need to be at approximately 9,000 feet if we're at 9,000 feet we're going to intercept the glide slope and if we've set all of our stuff up properly in the autopilot that's going to start descending automatically for us get us lined up on the localizer using this radio frequency information and we will come right into the centreline of the runway so X plane has some excellent tools built into its map function as just part of the game this is not a plugin this is actually built into X plane if you click on M on your keyboard it will open up your map once you're in the map you want to select flight path and then choose your approach we know that our approach is runway 1 ILS because that's the only ILS or approach at Yellowstone once that opens you can see that there's actually a graphical representation of where we are in relation to the airport we're about 2,000 feet above ground level 10 miles out and this is the glide slope once we intercept the glide slope then we can activate our autopilot and it will bring us down that glide slope in a very controlled a precise manner until we get just above the runway we can disengage our autopilot and do the rest of the landing manually so you don't have to go to skyvector to get those charts it's simply an extra level of realism for the game I really enjoy doing that because it gives me a better feel for what the airport looks like in the approach so though I'm actually on that approach I've already prepared myself for that landing okay we're coming into West Yellowstone Montana and I've already lined up fairly well on the runway if you can see our nav equipment up here in the upper right of art of our console you can see that I'm lined up pretty well with the localizer which is indicated by that vertical line and we are below the glide slope remembered about 7 nautical miles out we need to be roughly nine thousand feet or lower right now we're at eight thousand six hundred and some change and we are heading on a course of zero one zero which is exactly where we need to be going right now I have my autopilot set to heading and altitude so we're heading in the right direction as we get closer to that localizer what I'm going to do is I'm going to actually switch our autopilot to nav so let's go ahead and take a look at that if we look down at our autopilot we have heading which we're on currently and then nav is what we're going to use to actually get lined up on the localizer and the glide slope we're also going to click on the approach button now the approach button is going to dial in to that frequency that we selected earlier the one 10.7 which we know is the localizer for West Yellowstone if you look at our gauge up to the left you can see that we're starting to intercept the glide slope as it's coming down slowly going ahead just a little bit to the right so that we can intercept that localizer a little bit better and as we get that glide slope coming down a little bit closer to horizontal I'm going to turn on our nav and as soon as we hit the glide slope I'm going to turn on approach I'm going to wait for it for just a second or two longer and about now we're going to go ahead and hit the approach and then I'm going to hit altitude the altitude hold button again and you can see that our autopilot now has a GS on it that means that it's going to intercept the glide slope at this point so again if you look at our indicator you can see that the glide slope we're right on the glide slope and we're coming into the localizer so that line is going vertical again let's go ahead and take a look out our cockpit window you can see that the plane is lining it is lining itself up with the localizer at the airport bringing us in on the perfect heading I'm going to go ahead and slow us down a little bit when I land in a Cessna I typically like to be between 65 and 70 or 75 knots we'll go ahead and drop our flaps as well kill a little bit more of that speed now in the earlier versions of the Cessna apparently it had a lot more flap than a lot of people use nowadays I'm not an actual pilot so I don't know that for sure but I typically like to land with two notches a flap if I go three notches a flap I don't if I miss the approach I don't have enough throttle to get myself back up off the runway it seems I also have kind of a nasty take a nasty touch-and-go now I'm not touching anything you can see that the plane is keeping itself horizontal and vertical we're lined up just about perfectly on that runway if we zoom in a little bit you can see that we're coming in beautifully we'll go ahead and follow the approach down now as I discussed before I usually vector into my approach which gets me lined up on this flight path probably 20 miles out probably a little bit further than most pilots would but I like to get myself plenty of time especially if there's not mountain ranges or anything around me that would really prevent that give myself plenty of time to line up on the runway looks like my ground speed is about 72 knots it is dropping a little bit so I'm just gonna add just a touch of throttle so now we're at 70 knots and some change you can see that we're coming in on that runway just perfectly again I do not have my hands on the control yoke just mainly focusing on airspeed and flaps in fact I should probably add my second notch of flaps now since the aircraft is handling trim it's going to get me leveled out again just a second probably about now once I clear the trees I'll typically turn off my autopilot line myself up just a little bit better it's like I'm dropping speed pretty good a little bit lower than I normally like to be but still in the ballpark flare a little bit and bring us down so not a perfect landing but certainly one that got everybody home okay so using ILS we were able to line ourselves up with the runway we were able to intercept that glide slope we were able to line up really well with the runway and we've brought our plane down and so now we can tax the end to the terminal and say hi to everybody go explore Yellowstone [Music]

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Id: 8kHhEh4zFgI

Length: 14min 4sec (844 seconds)

Published: Thu Jun 04 2020